The Narrowboat Girl
Registered by Molyneux of Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on 3/13/2006
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
An absorbing tale of adventure and true love Young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved father. But worse is to come when her mother, Flo, sees an opportunity to better herself and her family in a marriage to the local undertaker, Norman Griffin. Though on the surface a caring family man, Norman is not at all what he seems, as Maryann and her sister Sal soon discover.Unable to turn to their unsympathetic mother for support, the girls are left alone with their harrowing secret. But for Sal it is too much to bear ...The chance of a new life opens up for Maryann when she befriends Joel Bartholomew. Aboard his narrowboat, the Esther Jane, she finds herself falling in love with life on the canal as she is swept away from Birmingham and all her worries. Until Joel's feelings for Maryann begin to change, awakening all the old nightmares that she had thought were long buried, and in panic and confusion she takes flight ...
I enjoyed this book - having finally read it! Loving the canals and the black country which is where I'm originally from, how could I fail to!
It was a very good story too!
Now where to release it...somewhere near a canal, naturally!
It was a very good story too!
Now where to release it...somewhere near a canal, naturally!
Journal Entry 3 by Molyneux at Canal Museum in Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Saturday, June 13, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (6/13/2009 UTC) at Canal Museum in Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire United Kingdom
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At the canal open day - somewhere around!
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At the canal open day - somewhere around!
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